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“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.”

Source: Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932

“If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.”

“Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.”

“There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.”

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Author:Lou Reed

“If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.”

“That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”

“To weep is to make less the depth of grief.”

“When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”

Source: A Prayer for Owen Meany: A Novel

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

Source: Poetical works

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”

Source: Complete Works

“It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.”

“And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.”

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Author:William C. Bryant

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”

“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.”

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“Without you in my arms, I feel an emptiness in my soul. I find myself searching the crowds for your face - I know it's an impossibility, but I cannot help myself.”

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”

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Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Wherever you are you will always be in my heart.”

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Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who didn't like to turn away from another's pain, the kind who couldn't put a pillow over his ears to drown out the cries of strangers. Those scars he had were badges of courage, and Willie knew that there were others hidden beneath his clothes, and still more deep inside, right beneath the skin and down to the soul. No, it was just that whatever goodness was there coexisted with rage and grief and loss.”

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Author:John Connolly

“You can't have real pain without real love. You can't feel grief and loss and hurt without real love. Love is the only way you can ever be really hurt deep down.”

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Book:August Magic

Source: August Magic

“Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope”

“Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.”

Source: Delphi Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)

“I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?”

Source: The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations

“At one hundred, surely you learn to overcome loss and grief—or do they hound you till the bitter end?”

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Book:Call Me by Your Name: A Novel

Source: Call Me by Your Name: A Novel

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”

“I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.”

Source: Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual

“But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.”

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Book:Life Expectancy

Source: Life Expectancy

“Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it.”

“You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.”

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Author:Bob Marley

“There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.”

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Author:Johnny Cash

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”

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Author:Kenji Miyazawa

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”

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Author:Jack Lemmon

“Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.”

Source: Emerson in His Journals

“The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.”

Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

“She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.”

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Book:Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

Source: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

“I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.”

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Author:Leo Buscaglia

“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.”

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Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“For some moments in life there are no words.”

“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not "get over" the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.”

“Man, when he does not grieve, hardly exists.”

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Author:Antonio Porchia

“No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.”

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Author:Emile M. Cioran

“We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”

“Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared with others, these emotions can be powerfully uniting, as we see that we are not alone, and realize that others weep with us.”

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Author:Susan Wittig Albert

“Sorrow makes us all children again.”

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Book:Emerson in His Journals

Source: Emerson in His Journals

“As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry and discipline, to try and make it manageable.”

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Author:Rosanne Cash

“Rage keeps the person who feels it company. It moves into the hollows left by grief and loss, and turns inside you like a dark furred animal that grows and fills you; it kills off loneliness and takes its place.”

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Book:I Loved You All: A Novel

Source: I Loved You All: A Novel

“There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.”

“Honesty is reached through the doorway of grief and loss.”

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Author:David Whyte

“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”